I could see them doing the American Revolution. First though, AC needs to bring back the guilds like they had in AC2, they need to make it more like an assassin and less like a hero, so having the contracts again like when you had to go to someone and get your contract. Freedom for assassinations and less scripted type kills and path would also make the game way better. Also having more side missions like the crazy church climbs (in 2 i think) where you had to find the secret room which eventually led you to Altiars Armor. And armor. What happened to it? I think they are also running out of time, cause eventually they are going to end up with a Splinter Cell type games if they go to far with the development of guns. Love the series though. I agree their needs to be larger cities with and expansion of the roof top running. as well as more ability to travel. to make a truly extraordinary game, i think they need to spend 2 years minimum on just that AC game, though they won't cause it isn't economically smart. For a good game they need to have time to create a huge open world expanse with large cities and a great story. I feel like AC Revelations, and AC 3 both had aspects of these, but not all of them. There is a lot to fix, and with the change in warfare happening past the American Revolution, i doubt we will see a comeback of armor and the idea of sword warfare, and end up with a splinter cell like game which would be just be disappointing. Either they got to make a story where we go back in time and possibly build a parallel story line of relatives (due to Ubisoft's obsession with genealogy) or something (I can see this being a very hard story line to create, but could help take the game back to it's previous glory), or ending it with this next game and keep it in a time period where sword warfare is still used to some effect. I think WWI would be a bad idea, cause it was mostly fought in the trenches which was basically only guns, so the American Civil War/Napoleonic Revolution time era is about when they would have to stop.